Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 501.010 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DELEGATION OF UNIT'S SOVEREIGN POWERS PROHIBITED.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A unit may not delegate to a corporation any of the unit's attributes of sovereignty, including the power to tax, the power of eminent domain, and the police power.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 2278), Sec. 3.01, eff. April 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.501.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 5e7ec7d018dc8d03ddb788a4190d9b7211f6d9cf661ab1b9c37d7c03137a07d7
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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